AUTHOR ARCHIVES

Denise Kersten

October 15, 2005
In a complex world, risk management means weighing odds and placing smart bets. Among the first things Michael Chertoff did after he was sworn in as secretary of the Homeland Security Department in February was to announce his plans to better manage national security. Central to his approach would be...

September 15, 2005
Social Security Administration Reginald Wells Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources, Chief Human Capital Officer Public service "is kind of in my genes," Reginald Wells told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Reorganization in 2003. "I happen to be a second-generation fed. My mother worked for the...

September 15, 2005
Homeland Security Ronald J. James Chief Human Capital Officer All eyes have been on Ronald J. James since he was named chief human capital officer at the Homeland Security Department in May 2003. Under the 2002 Homeland Security Act, which created the department, Congress allowed Homeland Security to develop a...

September 15, 2005
Health and Human Services Robert Hosenfeld Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources, Chief Human Capital Officer When Robert Hosenfeld was appointed chief human capital officer at the Health and Human Services Department in January, he took the helm of a ship already on course. For its human capital management, the...

September 15, 2005
General Services Administration Gail Lovelace Chief People Officer, Chief Human Capital Officer As the story goes, Gail Lovelace was director of human resources when she gave a speech that changed the structure of the General Services Administration. She told HR Magazine in 1999: "I said something to the effect that...

September 15, 2005
Energy Claudia Cross Director of Human Resources, Chief Human Capital Officer Claudia Cross remembers joining the Senior Executive Service in the 1990s as one of the proudest moments of her life. "I had a lot of ideas," she says, and she relished the opportunity to test those ideas as manager...

September 15, 2005
Labor Patrick Pizzella Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Chief Information Officer, Chief Acquisition Officer, Chief Human Capital Officer Patrick Pizzella holds the enviable position of being the top management adviser at the Labor Department, the first agency to earn top marks in all five areas of the President's Management...

September 15, 2005
General Services Administration Michael W. Carleton Chief Information Officer "I like to describe myself as a recovering budget analyst," Michael W. Carleton said during a radio interview in 2002. "I started working with the Department of Health and Human Services back in the late '70s, mainly doing budget analysis." He...

September 15, 2005
Energy Rosita Parkes Chief Information Officer Coming from the turmoil of the newly formed Homeland Security Department in October 2003, Rosita Parkes found solid ground in the technology operations of the Energy Department. "The first descriptor is 'stable,' " she says. "The second is 'well-planned.' " But while the Energy...

September 15, 2005
Transportation Phyllis F. Scheinberg Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs, Chief Financial Officer "It's actually somewhat of an accident," says Phyllis F. Scheinberg, of the 26 years she has spent working on federal transportation issues. She quickly notes that "accident" is a very bad word in transportation. "It was serendipitous,"...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.